Is Master Wen telling the story of Master Wen Lane by offering sacrifices to ancestors and paying for horses?

People have long known the story of Cixi's "behind-the-scenes listening to politics", but I'm afraid few people know Wen Xiang, one of the important figures who can help Empress Dowager Cixi listen to politics behind the scenes. His name is Wen and he comes from Shenyang.

According to the draft of Qing history, "Wen Xiang, a native of Zhenghongqi, Manchuria, lived in Shengjing ... 10, and he returned to his funeral. (Wen Xiang) invited the Empress Dowager of the two palaces to listen to politics ... great scholars, Shen, assistant minister and minister of military aircraft ... "According to the record of Fengtian Tongzhi,.

... Wen Xiang

Wen Xiang was born in Wu Jia Village (now Wujiatun), 40 miles south of Shenyang. When he lost his father in his childhood, his mother Marcus worked as a servant in a large family named Pan in the city. Wen Xiang Jr. has always been with his mother, and when he is older, he will accompany a son and a daughter of the Pan family. Because he was smart and studious since childhood, the Pan family made extra money in the "circle pavilion" (a gentleman invited by a large family to pay for the partnership) to follow him to school. As an adult, I went to Beijing with Master Pan to catch the exam. Master Pan's name fell on Sun Shan, and Wen Xiang won an award. In the second year of Daoguang, he won the Jinshi again and stayed in Beijing as an official. Soon, Pan's daughter married.

Poor children become big officials, which is big news. What can Wen Xiang do when he becomes a big official? Old Shenyang people are watching him. Wen Xiang lived up to expectations. After becoming a senior official, he took loving the people as the foundation and thought it his duty to do practical things for the people. During the Xianfeng period, Hong Xiuquan, who entered the customs, led the Taiping Rebellion. In order to suppress the Taiping rebels, the imperial court increased taxes and donations to the people of the whole country, and the people in Northeast China complained bitterly. The villagers in Shengjing sent representatives to Beijing to meet Wen and state their difficulties. They told Wen Xiang that the imperial court ordered the Commissioner to send food and grass to him, and the people went back for more than 40 days, leaving their land at home, leaving their wives and children helpless and unable to do business. The officials and gentry in Shengjing also took the opportunity to raise taxes and exploit them layer by layer, making people's lives miserable.

Hearing this, Wen Xiang flew into a rage. He made it clear to the emperor in the court that day, and suggested that the grain and grass in the pass could be exchanged for silver to pay for it, which not only saved the labor and money of the people, but also allowed them to produce more. At the same time, he also suggested that corrupt officials who make it difficult for the country to make money must be eliminated and gentry who take the opportunity to exploit the people should be governed. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted Wen's suggestion and put it into practice. At the same time, he was sent back to Shengjing by the emperor as an imperial envoy. After the author returned to Shengjing, he investigated and dealt with a group of corrupt officials and thieves and abolished unreasonable exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees. The people of Shengjing all clapped their hands and cheered.

After becoming a senior official, Wen Xiang was honest and tried his best to serve the people. Therefore, there are more and more stories about his love for the people and his help to the people, which are also widely circulated. Among them, the most touching ones are Wen Wentang's ancestor worship and Fu Ma.

One year, Wen Xiang returned to his hometown to pay homage to his ancestral grave. In the welcoming crowd, someone suddenly handed a note that read: "You only care about sweeping graves, but you forget that your hometown is poor. How can I be a villager when I am poor? " Wen Xiang read it and immediately asked the scholar why. It turned out that the only horse of a poor family named Suo broke the reins and ran to his ancestral grave to eat grass. Unable to get rid of it, the grave keeper wounded the horse with a shotgun and died the next day. Suojia went to the county government to complain. When the magistrate heard that it was an accusation against Wen's adult, he wanted to take the opportunity to please him and ordered him to break into a private grave and kill him. The owner of the Suo family knew that officials cared for each other and fell ill in a rage.

After learning the situation, the owner was furious and quit the tomb raider. He bought a good horse and sent it to Suo's house to apologize. He also suggested that local officials forget the judge who did not uphold justice.

Since then, adult writing has become a life in the eyes of Shenyang people.

Because Wen Xiang has done many good things for the people of Shenyang, the people of Shenyang deified his legend.

The most representative thing is that when I was studying with Pan's family, I was discovered by Master Pan. While I was asleep, I accidentally saw a little tiger and four lights for lighting when I was walking at night. Therefore, Pan decided that he would become a big official in the future, so he paid for his education and married his daughter.

Wen Xiang is from Shenyang, but he has little time in Shenyang. In the second section of Dadong Road, Dadong District, Shenyang, it used to be the house of Wen Xiang in Shengjing (Shenyang)-Wenzhongtang House. In the 25th year of Daoguang (1845), Wen Xiang went to Beijing to take the exam, and Jinshi stayed in Beijing as an official. The Shenyang family only has a father and a brother, and he only lives here when visiting relatives. With the progress of career, Wen Xiang's house has been rebuilt several times. In the early years of Tongzhi, it was already a big house with two courtyards, facing south and surrounded by high walls and mountain gates. The strange rocks and rockeries in the courtyard are exquisitely arranged, and the shadows of lilacs and acacia trees are swaying. The stone lion crouches at the main entrance, and the bell and drum platform and the horse stone platform outside the door, and the Fuzi screen with single eaves on the stone-based brick lintel span the door, adding a bit of mystery. Two doors, decorated with hanging wood carvings, with brick walls on both sides. Once in the hospital, receptionists, servants and waiters can use the concierge and wing. The second hospital is the upper house, and five rooms in the north room are the main rooms. The high platform room is bounded by stone strips, with small green bricks and tiles, hard mountains reaching the top, front and rear corridors, and east and west wing rooms. There are five cars in the east and west hatchbacks, each of which is occupied by family members. All houses are plastered with blue bricks, and the top of the gable is decorated with passion flower brick carvings.

.. Wen Xiang's grave.

1865, the Qing court awarded a bachelor's degree in Wuyingdian for Wen Xiang's "meritorious service" in leading the Ji Shen camp to suppress the peasant uprising. Therefore, the plaque of "Tang Fu in Wen" was hung on the lintel of Wenjiafu. Wen Xiang often lives here too. At that time, my college classmates were officially called nave. Adding a surname in front of it is "Wenzhongtang". In May of the third year of Guangxu (1877), Wen Xiang died in Beijing and was buried in the north side of Dadongbian Gate in Shengjing (now southwest of Shenyang Mining Machinery Factory), only a few miles away from the house where he lived. In the later period, the Tang Fu family gradually declined, and it no longer exists today.

The Hutong where Wen Xiang lived in Shenyang is called "Wentangtang Hutong" because of its popularity among Shenyang people. 1957, when the street names and house numbers in Shenyang were reorganized, a part of Wentangtang Hutong, Tuying Wall Hutong and Huajia Hutong were combined into "Li Wenzhong", which was called "Wendaren Lane".